Georgic at Home in Nineteenth-Century Dialect Poetry

• Published in: 19: interdisciplinary studies in the long nineteenth century Vol. 2025; no. 37; pp. 1 - 20
• Main Author: Edney, Sue
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Open Library of Humanities 02.05.2025
• Subjects: Barnes, William; Bloomfield, Robert; Clare, John; Employee motivation; Poetry; United Kingdom; dialect; protest; georgic; class; labour and leisure

Victorian literary dialect can be used for many things: cries for help, nostalgia, or comedy. My interest is in how it can be used to subversive didactic effect in order to point up the environmental linguistic connections that strengthen reciprocal relations between human and nonhuman, sentient, an...